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Broadway & Regional Theater: HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (Lyric Theatre in New York; Curran in San Francisco; Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto)
IT’S SAFE TO SAY THERE’S MAGIC IN STORE You know, I was never bored watching the epic two-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; it truly was a magical experience, and the production team deserved congratulations. But Jack Thorne’s script, I thought, could use some judicious trimming. And now that’s happened, due in large part (according…
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Music | Dance | Theater: CAL PERFORMANCES (2021-22 Season)
SUPERCALILINEUP Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley’s Cal Performances has announced its 2021–22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before the pandemic shut everything down. The world’s greatest artists in jazz, classical, opera, pop, dance, theater, and more are heading to Berkeley, leaving you…
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Virtual Theater: TALES OF THE CITY, THE MUSICAL (American Conservatory Theater, Broadway On Demand)
A.C.T. OFFERS ONLINE SCREENING OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN’S TALES OF THE CITY, THE MUSICAL Filmed during its original 2011 run, this 10th Anniversary event will stream during San Francisco Pride Week on Broadway On Demand’s National Theater Network 10 years ago this month, San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) presented the much-anticipated (and very sold out) musicalization of Armistead…
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Virtual Theater: NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN (The Marsh)
I’ve known about Brian Copland’s work for years, but didn’t get a chance to see the Bay Area performer until the virtual presentation of his solo show The Jewelry Box, easily one of the most effective one-man shows I have ever seen. (See my review here.) On June 19 (Juneteenth) The Marsh will offer a…
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Music: SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY (Live Concerts, Davies Hall)
The San Francisco Symphony will be increasing audience capacities for live concerts at Davies Symphony Hall in May and June, 2021, following the City’s approval of the Symphony’s Health & Safety Plan. Audience capacities for performances on May 13–June 25 will be increased to 35% of Davies Symphony Hall’s total capacity. There will be two…
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Virtual Dance: HELGI TOMASSON’S SWAN LAKE (SF Ballet)
San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) is presenting Helgi Tomasson’s Swan Lake from May 20 to June 9, 2021, closing SF Ballet’s 2021 Digital Season. The archival capture from 2016 stars Principal Dancers Yuan Yuan Tan as Odette-Odile and Tiit Helimets as Prince Siegfried. Swan Lake offers standout roles for the corps of 30 swans and Odette-Odile,…
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Virtual Theatrical Event: COMMUNION (A.C.T. in San Francisco)
American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) is stretching the theatrical landscape with the world premiere production of Obie Award–winning Bay Area playwright Christopher Chen’s virtual play, Communion. It’s a thrilling interactive theatrical event on Zoom which is performed live May 28–June 27, 2021 for a limited number of attendees at each performance. It will feature Bay Area favorite Stacy Ross in her…
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Film: FRAMELINE45 FILM FESTIVAL (Pride Night and more)
FRAMELINE45 FILM FESTIVAL JUNE 10–27, 2021 NOW WITH VIRTUAL SCREENINGS NATIONWIDE Frameline’”the world’s longest–running and largest showcase of queer cinema’”returns this year with Frameline45: The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, running June 10–27, 2021. Slated to be the most attended and longest festival in Frameline history, this year’s offerings will include a mix of in–person…
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Cabaret: FEINSTEIN’S AT THE NIKKO (San Francisco’s Premier Nightclub Re-Opens This Week)
FEINSTEIN’S AT THE NIKKO ANNOUNCES REOPENING WITH LINEUP OF FAN FAVORITES, BROADWAY STARS, AND LOCAL ICONS Following a year of shuttered doors, Feinstein’s at the Nikko announced today they will reopen later this month with a lineup of fan favorites, Broadway stars, and local icons who will take the stage at San Francisco’s premier nightclub. Tickets…
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Theater: TALK TO YOUR PEOPLE (Dan Hoyle, The Marsh)
TALK TO ME One of our greatest solo performers, Dan Hoyle returns to The Marsh for an intimate night of online theater, comedy, and community with an experimental workshop, Talk to Your People, available to stream via MarshStream. Provoked by a director friend last summer who said to “talk to your people,” Hoyle began to create new characters…
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Theater: TRANSNATIONAL CABARET (NCTC in San Francisco)
Transcultural. Transformative. Transcendent. This May, San Francisco’s New Conservatory Theatre Center (NCTC) is presenting TransNational Cabaret, an exuberant performance dedicated to the power of being Trans while highlighting the vibrant kaleidoscope of the Trans experience. This digital event features an array of innovative Trans performers from the Bay Area and across the country as they…
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Theater: CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OPENS (Children’s Musical Theater San Jose
Children’s Musical Theater San Jose (CMT) Announces Grand Opening of New Creative Arts Center CMT, the nationally-acclaimed theater company honored 12 times by the National Endowment for the Arts and the oldest operating performing arts organization in San Jose, announced today the opening of its new Creative Arts Center. Known for providing the highest quality…
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Theater/Film: ANIMAL WISDOM (PBS)
Woolly Mammoth and A.C.T. have finished work on an original film of The Bushwick Starr’s acclaimed production of Animal Wisdom, created by and starring Heather Christian. Filmed at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C., PBS is now streaming Animal Wisdom here. Do you believe in ghosts? Take a virtual front row seat for this original film of the…
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Theater Review: FEEL THE SPIRIT (Shotgun Players in Berkeley)
THE SPIRIT OF THIS PIECE RESIDES IN PERFORMER VERO MAYNEZ What I left with from Feel the Spirit, which opened last night virtual-but-live from Shotgun Players, is the central performance of Vero Maynez (below) as Gabriella, a gay pastor at a Christian Church whose parishioners believe themselves to be tolerant but soon shy from liberalism…
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Theater: A.C.T. OUT LOUD: Alice Childress’s ‘Trouble in Mind’; Shaw’s ‘Arms and the Man’; Wilder’s ‘The Matchmaker’)
Beginning tonight, A.C.T. begins its Out Loud series, which features a series of enduring play readings by some of the greatest minds of generations past. It begins tonight with Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind, running through April 4, 2021. The two other productions that will be part of the series are George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man, (April…
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Theater Review: [HIEROGLYPH] (San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre)
AS WITH A HIEROGLYPH, THIS PLAY IS DIFFICULT TO READ Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s [hieroglyph], now streaming from San Francisco Playhouse and and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, belongs to a genre known as Theatre of Identity, aka Social Issues Theatre. The idea is to call attention to a particular cultural identity or crisis – in this case, the…
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Opera: FREE OPERA STREAMS (San Francisco Opera)
SCHEDULE OF FREE OPERA STREAMS FOR APRIL FROM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA San Francisco Opera’s weekly, free opera streams continue in April with Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (April 3–4), The Fall of the House of Usher double bill featuring one-act operas by Gordon Getty and Claude Debussy (April 10–11) and Verdi’s Don Carlo (April 17–18). Part of the Company’s Opera is ON initiative, free opera streams…
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Museum: THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS AND WORLD WAR II (The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco)
The Walt Disney Family Museum opens its new special exhibition, The Walt Disney Studios and World War II, on Thursday, March 18 for museum members and to the general public the following day, Friday, March 19, 2021. Disney Studio Artist, historically accurate color rendition by Kent Ramsey; 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron, Fresno, CA, Dumbo insignia, 1942….
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Music: MITSUKO UCHIDA (Recital with Cal Performance)
YOU NEED UCHIDA Cal Performances presents pianist Mitsuko Uchida — a revered interpreter of Schubert — in a virtual recital, streamed online in a digital watch party accompanied by a participatory live chat on Thursday, March 18 at 7pm (PDT). In this recital, recorded for Cal Performances at Home at London’s Wigmore Hall, she performs a…
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Opera: RING FESTIVAL (San Francisco Opera)
RING FESTIVAL March 5–30 Wagner’s Ring Cycle Streams in March Accompanied by Live Ring Festival Virtual Events Featuring Special Guests Daniel Brenna (Siegfried) and Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde) in Wagner’s Siegfried (streaming March 20–21) Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), in Francesca Zambello’s “boldly contemporary” (The New York Times) staging, a co-production with Washington National…
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